Josh Sundquist speaks at the National FFA Convention

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From: Future Farmers of America Added: 10-24-2009
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Josh Sundquist is a Paralympic ski racer and nationally known inspirational speaker. He has been featured on CNN and in USA TODAY and has spoken to Sundquisthundreds of thousands of people across the country. At age nine, he was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and given a 50 percent chance to live. He spent a year on chemotherapy treatments and his left leg was amputated. Doctors declared Josh cured of the disease at age 13 and he took up ski racing three years later. He trained for the next six years and in 2006 he was named to the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team for the 2006 Paralympics in Turino, Italy. As a writer, Josh has been published in The Washington Post, Daily Guideposts and Current, Newsweek's college magazine. In 2003, he co-authored the teen devotional book Forty Voices: Stories of Hope from Our Generation. Josh received a degree in business from the College of William and Mary and a master's in communications from the University of Southern California.
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